Swiss Open Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth sails into quarterfinals with fighting victory against Christo Popov in second round

Swiss Open Badminton: Srikanth vs Popov- Srikanth Kidambi sealed his place in the quarterfinals of Swiss Open with a win fighting win over France’s Christo Popov in three sets in the second round on Thursday. After losing the opening game 13-21, he made a fighting comeback in the 2nd game, winning the game by 25-23. He took the third game 21-11 to confirm his place in the last eight.  Follow all the live updates on InsideSport.IN

Swiss Open Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth sails into quarterfinals with fighting victory against Christo Popov in second round

YONEX Swiss Open 2022
MS – Round of 16
13 25 21 🇮🇳Srikanth KIDAMBI🏅
21 23 11 🇫🇷Christo POPOV

🕗 in 73 minutes
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— BWFScore (@BWFScore) March 24, 2022

Kidambi Srikanth was dominated by Popov in the first set. Srikanth struggled to pick up the left hander’s terrific cross court smashes and couldn’t do much as he surrendered in the first set. He however got back into the groove in the second set and displayed a strong fight. He began building pressure on his opponent. Popov’s inexperiene came to his dismay as he kept losing crucial points. Popov however didn’t concede much lead and was in the game as he levelled the scores 10-10 and entered the break trailing 11-10.

Swiss Open Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth sails into quarterfinals with fighting victory against Christo Popov in second round

From then on the began swinging like a pendulum as both the players began catching up with each other. The neck-to-neck battle was underway until the score were 23-23. Popov gave a big scare to Srikanth but the Indian was calm under pressure and got the valuable two points to stretch the game into the third set.

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Srikanth started dominating the third set right from the start and showcased all his experience. Popov who fought hard in the first two sets couldn’t even come close to the Indian as Srikanth won the set comfortably 21-11 to enter the quarter-final.

Kidambi Srikanth will now face Anders Antonsen in the quarterfinals. Antonsen beat Thailand’s Sitthikom Thammasin 17-21, 21-14, 21-14.

Swiss Open Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth sails into quarterfinals with fighting victory against Christo Popov in second round

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